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Jacquemontia paniculata

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Name

Identification
Jacquemontia paniculata (Burm. f.) Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for JACQUEMONTIA paniculata (Burm.f.) Hall f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
JACQUEMONTIA paniculata (Burm.f.) Hall f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 16 : 541 (1893) & in E.J. 18 : 95 (1893); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 87 (1905); van Ooststr. in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4 (4) : 432, fig. 19 (1953). Type : Java, Batavia, Kleynhoff in Burmann 413 (88) (G, holo.!)
Information
Annual twiner; stems pubescent. Leaf-blade ovate-cordate, up to 4.5(–8) cm. long and 3.5(–5) cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, glabrescent above and sparsely pubescent beneath on the nerves or densely tomentose all over; petiole up to 2.5(–6) cm. long, pubescent. Flowers several to many in a ± dense cyme; peduncle up to 5.5 cm. long, pubescent; secondarypeduncles and pedicels up to 0.5 cm. long; bracts minute. Sepals ovate, acute, about 6 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, pubescent. Corolla white, pink or yellow, 1 cm. long. Capsule globose, 5–6 mm. in diameter, straw-coloured. Seeds dark, subtrigonous, 2.5 mm. long, with very narrow ± indistinct hyaline margins and pale raised roughenings.
Range
DISTR. (of species as a whole). As for typical variety with the addition of Queensland.

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